{"id":19512,"date":"2024-05-17T16:09:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=19512"},"modified":"2025-03-08T22:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T22:22:05","slug":"unwin-family-anglican","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=19512","title":{"rendered":"Unwin family (Anglican)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%; background-color: #faf9e6; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Disambiguation<\/strong> \u2013 There was more than one Unwin family, at least two possibly more. Two of these families were very active in Bollington and we know quite a bit about both. The only significant feature to differentiate between them was their religion \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=5099\">one family was Catholic<\/a>, the other Anglican. This page describes the principal Anglican family.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Samuel Unwin ()<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Samuel UNWIN had a grocery shop<\/strong> at No. 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=2206\">Chancery Lane<\/a>, Kerridge, just round the corner from the <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=850#redlion\">Red Lion inn<\/a> which the family also owned at one time.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; vertical-align: top;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/310-014_unwin_flour_bag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19520 size-medium\" title=\"Samuel Unwin flour bag, front\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/310-014_unwin_flour_bag-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Samuel Unwin flour bag, front\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/310-014_unwin_flour_bag-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/310-014_unwin_flour_bag-730x1024.jpg 730w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/310-014_unwin_flour_bag-768x1077.jpg 768w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/310-014_unwin_flour_bag-1095x1536.jpg 1095w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/310-014_unwin_flour_bag.jpg 1213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/310-015_unwin_flour_bag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19521 size-medium\" title=\"Samuel Unwin flour bag, back\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/310-015_unwin_flour_bag-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"Samuel Unwin flour bag, back\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/310-015_unwin_flour_bag-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/310-015_unwin_flour_bag-720x1024.jpg 720w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/310-015_unwin_flour_bag-768x1092.jpg 768w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/310-015_unwin_flour_bag-1080x1536.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/310-015_unwin_flour_bag.jpg 1238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; vertical-align: top;\">Rare example of a Samuel UNWIN flour bag which would be filled and weighed in the shop. The crumpling of the paper appears to have been put in as part of the manufacturing process.&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Sam &amp; Emily UNWIN for some time between c.1923 and c.1939 kept the corner shop grocery store at <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=9086\">1 Moss Brow<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=1364\">Bollington Cross<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Various members of the Unwin family owned a significant estate of properties across Bollington and elsewhere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/002-011-unwin-properties-1940s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-20080 size-medium\" title=\"Division of Properties\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/002-011-unwin-properties-1940s-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"Division of Properties\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/002-011-unwin-properties-1940s-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/002-011-unwin-properties-1940s-734x1024.jpg 734w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/002-011-unwin-properties-1940s-768x1071.jpg 768w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/002-011-unwin-properties-1940s-1101x1536.jpg 1101w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/002-011-unwin-properties-1940s.jpg 1291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_20081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20081\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/002-012-unwin-properties-1940s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20081 size-medium\" title=\"Division of Properties\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/002-012-unwin-properties-1940s-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Division of Properties\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/002-012-unwin-properties-1940s-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/002-012-unwin-properties-1940s-718x1024.jpg 718w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/002-012-unwin-properties-1940s-768x1095.jpg 768w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/002-012-unwin-properties-1940s-1077x1536.jpg 1077w, https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/002-012-unwin-properties-1940s.jpg 1284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Division of Properties<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.841%; vertical-align: top;\">\n<p>The document (left) shows the division of properties after the deaths of <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=6075&amp;fam=11557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mary Ann UNWIN<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> in 1936, her son <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=6075&amp;fam=11556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sam UNWIN<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> in 1947, and her son <span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=6075&amp;fam=11564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanley UNWIN<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\"> in 1958. The second page includes a list of properties from which the author, F P UNWIN, collected rents in 1946\/7 on behalf of his father, <a href=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/?page_id=6075&amp;fam=11561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fred Ridgway UNWIN<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/happyvalley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/external.png\" title=\"Going to an external website!\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\">. The yellow highlights are on the original document, reason unknown. The yellow sticker has been added in modern times, it&#8217;s not known who by, or the veracity of the information contained therein.<br \/>\n<\/span>Click on the pics for a larger view.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 46.841%; vertical-align: top;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[Page under development]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disambiguation \u2013 There was more than one Unwin family, at least two possibly more. Two of these families were very active in Bollington and we know quite a bit about both. The only significant feature to differentiate between them was their religion \u2013 one family was Catholic, the other Anglican. 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